Random geometric complexes

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DOI10.1007/S00454-010-9319-3zbMATH Open1219.05175arXiv0910.1649OpenAlexW2120672285MaRDI QIDQ633210FDOQ633210


Authors: Matthew Kahle Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 March 2011

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the expected topological properties of Cech and Vietoris-Rips complexes built on i.i.d. random points in R^d. We find higher dimensional analogues of known results for connectivity and component counts for random geometric graphs. However, higher homology H_k is not monotone when k > 0. In particular for every k > 0 we exhibit two thresholds, one where homology passes from vanishing to nonvanishing, and another where it passes back to vanishing. We give asymptotic formulas for the expectation of the Betti numbers in the sparser regimes, and bounds in the denser regimes. The main technical contribution of the article is in the application of discrete Morse theory in geometric probability.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1649




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